Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-25274 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-25274 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-25274?
- Medium severity, with a CVSS score of 6.7, published 6 October 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- Qualcomm <UNKNOWN>.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-25274?
- No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
- How is CVE-2026-25274 attacked?
- It is attacked with local access, in device firmware.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-25274?
- Check whether you run Qualcomm <UNKNOWN>. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
Technical details
The vulnerability is a race condition in DMA buffer management where concurrent allocation and deallocation operations are not properly synchronized. An attacker with local code execution can trigger both operations simultaneously to cause heap memory corruption in kernel space, potentially achieving privilege escalation or denial of service.
Affected products
- Qualcomm <UNKNOWN>
Timeline
- 2026-10-06: disclosed